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The other comment I would like to add (and the moms above may disagree with me) but I think, like competitive cheerleading, the sport has simply become too dangerous.  You are probably not old enough to remember this but Olga Korbut won with a perfect ten by doing a now-outlawed move (called, naturally, "The Korbut) where she crawled up to the top of the uneven parallel bars and did an entire backflip in the air and caught the top bar and then continued her routine.  Had she not caught the bar she could have broken her neck.  I was also in Atlanta when we hosted the summer olympics when Carey Struggs (right name?) did the three backflips on the beam and missed the last one and injured herself.  That's another way to break your neck.

I recently met a cheerleader "flyer" who trains at gymini and she suffered a bad concussion when doing a flip and wasn't caught by the other cheerleaders.

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Also, the girls (and men, too, but more often the girls) develop severe eating disorders because of necessity to keep thin and smart.  And I imagine you all know that gymnasts get their periods later in life because of the stress they are putting on their bodies during training.  Anyone remember the difference in Nadia Comenich (sp) between the first Olympics and the second.  Yes, the Russians and the Romanians were using drugs to keep the girls small (China, too) but puberty eventually does catch up with these girls and the rapid growth spurt when that happens is not healthy.  Olga and Nadia didn't even look like the same gymnasts four years after their first Olympics.  Well, take that for what it's worth.

Double yawn here.[/quote]

Mom of an Acrobatics gymnastics "top" here.  It's scary as he'll when your kids get to the higher levels.  There are tons of injuries each year, most of which don't wipe kids out for the season, but some do.  As to eating disorders, I've heard the same thing, but I have not seen it personally.  The kids actually eat really well and are in good weight range.  [/quote]

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